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The permanent campaign: in Chuck Bailey's trove of electoral collectibles--buttons and bumper stickers and matchbooks and the like--the history of Texas politics lives forever.

Publication: Texas Monthly
Publication Date: 01-JAN-07
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: The permanent campaign: in Chuck Bailey's trove of electoral collectibles--buttons and bumper stickers and matchbooks and the like--the history of Texas politics lives forever.(Cover story)

Article Excerpt
CHUCK BAILEY'S FASCINATION WITH CAMPAIGN MEMORABILIA BEGAN one evening in 1960 when his dad gave him a pile of "Kennedy-Johnson" buttons. This had a twofold effect: It started Bailey's lifelong hobby, and it gave the Fort Worth sixth-grader ammunition against all the "Nixon" buttons he'd seen at school. * From that moment on, Bailey began hoarding items related to Texas campaigns: dominoes and paper fans and pins and key chains and rulers and emery boards and combs and shoestrings and, well, just about anything that can carry a name and a slogan. Today the collection has ballooned to more than four thousand items--he isn't sure of the exact number--and the best are captured in Texas Political...

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